Fantastic Maps: The Sand Dragon Inn

Cartographer Jonathan Roberts created this map for Kobold Quarterly #10 and, in collaboration with Open Design, we are happy to bring it to you today as "Fantastic Maps: The Sand Dragon Inn".

The Sand Dragon Inn is know for its luxurious common room and beautiful mosaic courtyard, but it hides a dark secret. Under the Inn lies a network of caves - and the secret to the Inn's name. This map presents an exotic Inn, with common room, meeting rooms, courtyards, stables, store rooms and owners quarters. It can be used without the underground tunnels if all you need is an exotic Inn, or you can include the caves to open up a more sinister underside to this decadent waystation.

This map pack includes:

Multi-page pdf in letter and A4 formats that enables you to print out the maps for your gametable at 1 square = 1 inch. The pdfs come in both colour and printer friendly greyscale.

High resolution jpgs with and without grid for both the upper and lower level of the Inn designed to be easily dropped into any virtual tabletop program - or printed off as a poster at your local print shop.

Maptool campaign files with vision blocking and light constructed for quick use in 4E, PFRPG, or any OGL game. They are compatible with Maptool 1.3b84 or newer.

The maps are well drawn in Jonathan Robert’s signature style, and I want to like the set, but the map confuses me. I just don’t know what I’m looking at. This is one printable map product that really needs a key of some sort. [...]

This map comes in several pdfs: One for the upper Inn, one for the lower Inn. Furthermore, we get versions of the map in both letter and A4-formats (for Europeans like yours truly), as well as MACOSX-compatible versions, 4 jpegs of the map and map-tool [...]

This map comes in several pdfs: One for the upper Inn, one for the lower Inn. Furthermore, we get versions of the map in both letter and A4-formats (for Europeans like yours truly), as well as MACOSX-compatible versions, 4 jpegs of the map and map-tool [...]

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